Milosevic's house bombed

April 25, 1974

MAFIOUS GROUP DISINTEGRATE. The Federal Judicial Police denounced the open participation of “big boys” in the smuggling of drugs and gold that had been carried out from El Fuerte towards the United States, by a powerful gang of smugglers and drug traffickers that had been operating for two years in the Alteña region and the mountains of Chihuahua. The arrest of five men and one woman made clear the illicit activities of the group, who were found with 800 kilos of marijuana, 15 gold nuggets, two planes, a truck and various weapons.

CLERGY AFFLICTED BY THE SITUATION OF THE COUNTRY. Santiago. The Chilean bishops called for reconciliation in Chile to help establish a regime of coexistence in which all Chileans can live as true brothers. A statement from the episcopate was released by Cardinal Raúl Silva, president of the episcopal conference of Chile. The text was prepared by all the bishops and includes their concern for the current situation in the country, with the hope that it will be well received; made in absolute freedom by the episcopate and reflects the thinking of the majority of the bishops.

TEA BASKET AND FASHION EXHIBITION. The first lady of the municipality, Mrs. Otilia Ibarra de Villarreal, organized a grand Basket Tea and Fashion Exhibition, an event that has been enthusiastically prepared for the most splendid celebration of Children's Day. The highlight of this event will be the fashion exhibition, with local professional models, which, sponsored by Boutique Isabel, will reveal everything that is elegant, beautiful and appropriate, to be worn in the spring-summer season.

April 25, 1999

SMOKING IS PROHIBITED IN PUBLIC PLACES. A new ban will now surround the 13 million Mexican smokers. The Chamber of Deputies joined the crusade against smoking by approving an opinion that modifies a fraction of the General Health Law. With this change, which passed to the Senate for its constitutional effects, no cigarette may be lit in public buildings and offices or facilities of the Federation, nor in places where government services are provided. The ban became effective as of yesterday.

MILOSEVIC'S HOUSE BOMBED. Belgrade. NATO destroyed President Slobodan Milosevic's main residence in this capital before dawn, although the president and his family were not in the luxurious two-story mansion when the missiles fell. Britain's Armed Forces Minister, Doug Henderson, said that Milosevic's “military machine is the target, to the exclusion of others.” He explained that the residence had been attacked because it was being used as a “command and control facility.” The attack on one of the president's two primary residences occurred just a few hours before the arrival in this capital of the Prime Minister of Russia, Victor Chernomyrdin, who came to consult with Milosevic on possible resolutions to the Kosovo conflict. Russia fiercely opposes the NATO air raids, which began on March 24. Until two days ago, NATO focused its air and missile strikes on strategic Yugoslav military targets, although it attacked the capital building where the offices of the ruling political party and radio and TV stations, belonging to a daughter of Milosevic, operate. The attacks are intended to force Milosevic to accept a peace plan for Kosovo, imposed by the Western military alliance. There are no signs of a diplomatic solution or foreseeable relief for the refugees from that province, from which some 600,000 inhabitants of Albanian descent have left.

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Sylva Mónica Ruffo Kelly, who completed her basic and high school studies in Los Mochis, stayed two years in El Centro, California, where she perfected the English language. She joined El Debate in September 1994 as a translator and later, in 2000, she became an assistant editor at El Debate de Los Mochis, tasks that led her to take charge of the entertainment page for more than 10 years and the newspaper archive. Upon the death of the City Chronicler, Don Evaristo Fregoso, in September 2003, who wrote the Los Mochis column 50 and 25 years ago, Ruffo Kelly took over the history column, which he later changed to Mi Ciudad 50 and 25 years, in which he narrates what happened in those years on the same day of publication of the newspaper EL DEBATE of Los Mochis.

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